Our Saturday

Though it’s a long weekend this week, unfortunately we do not have any plans for the boys… Thus we stayed in on yesterday and spend our time on books bakes toys and games. 
The elder boy got my genes when it comes to playing games.  He simply love computer and handheld games.  Since he do not [...]

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Cupcake decor class

Me and fannie went for cupcake decor class last Sunday.  We initially thought it was a baking class, but turn out it is a decor class.  Nevertheless I think we all enjoyed the class.  It was fun squeezing icing and seeing the decor takes shape.
We get pratice sheet to try out before going on to [...]

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Teacher’s Day Pressies

It’s teacher’s day tomorrow but Dec’s centre will be closed, so we prepared the pressies yesterday for him to give it out to the teachers today.  This year, I decied to bake milo doggie cookies for the teachers. 
While I prep in the kitchen to make the dough, Dec did 8 little cards with the help [...]

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Meddling in the Kitchen

It’s good to be back at our own place!  I can mess up the kitchen for all I care and there will be no one breathing down my neck ha!  Suddenly felt like being a good mother on Sunday so I woke up slightly earlier wanting to make Pancakes for my kids!  I surfed the web [...]

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Tarts

I’ve progressed from baking cupcakes to baking no-bake cheesecake and now I am attempting to bake tarts.  I’ve tried 2 different tarts so far – Egg tarts and Apple Tarts.  Both attempts turned out edible.  As usual, my bakes don’t like pretty… I wonder why.. probably it’s due to my clumsy fingers and the lack [...]

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Attempts at Baking Pandan Chiffon

The very ambitious me tried my hands at baking Pandan Chiffon, not once, but twice.  I’ve heard many horror stories about beginner bakers trying to bake Chiffon cakes, how their cakes fell flat and didn’t rise like a true chiffon should or the texture turning rubbery etc.  All these, did not dampen my determination to [...]

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1st Edible Bake – Banana Cupcakes

My past attempts at baking mostly turn out quite horrible.  Somehow, something will go wrong.  Most of it ain’t suitable to be stomached :p  Today I attempted baking again after a good 1+ month break.  This time I did Banana Cupcakes from the recipe that I got from the below book.

I finally managed to bake [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dec woke up with a fever this morning, thus I got to apply urgent leave and stay home with him.  His fever went away after he took some med, phew!  I cooked some porridge for our lunch and since I’m home, I decided to try baking some Chocolate Chip Cookies.  I’ve printed out the recipe [...]

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1st Pandan Chiffon Attempt

I keep looking at this aunty’s recipes until I can’t take it anymore and decided to be ambitious to try baking a chiffon despite the fact that I can’t even bake proper cupcakes yet :p  I took the easy way out and bought a pack of chiffon premix from NTUC instead of DIY.
My result looked [...]

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First Baking Attempt

2 weeks ago, one of my colleague was nice enough to offer to come all the way to my place to teach me how to bake upon hearing that I have just acquired a new oven.  She taught me how to bake muffins and cookies. 
Last Friday, there was this strong urge to try to bake [...]

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